Mockery around the Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea in a Portuguese Baroque Poetry anthology

In this paper I focus on three mythological fables published in the Portuguese anthology A fenix renascida (1716-1728) that reflect the appropriation of Luis de Gongora's epilio, either through paraphrase or burlesque parody, questioning the uses of poetry, between erudition and vulgarisation. I give mainly attention to Jacinto Freire de Andrade's "Fabula de Polifemo e Galatea" in order to understand a fundamental issue in these "burlas": the satire of the literary institution. In the wake of the Gongorian polemic, the mockery surrounding don Luis' poem attacks the context of the professionalization of poetry in the Siglo de Oro. Through Andrade's poem, it becomes clear that the setting of Gongora's poem and, especially, the song of the cyclops, point towards the vicissitudes of poetry's craft, especially the poetry of praise, where "commission" goes hand in hand with conceptismo.